Kiffa
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Kiffa is a city and department in south-central Mauritania
Mauritania
Mauritania is a country in the Maghreb and West Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean in the west, by Western Sahara in the north, by Algeria in the northeast, by Mali in the east and southeast, and by Senegal in the southwest...

. Kiffa is capital of Assaba Region. It is located at around 16.63°N 11.4°W.

It is famous for its antique Kiffa beads
Kiffa beads
Kiffa beads are rare powder glass beads named after the Mauritanian city of Kiffa, where French ethnologist R.Mauny documented them first in 1949....

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